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Insulin-degrading enzyme, also known as IDE, is an enzyme. [ 4 ] Known alternatively as insulysin or insulin protease , IDE is a large zinc-binding protease of the M16 metalloprotease family known to cleave multiple short polypeptides that vary considerably in sequence.
Lanthanide metals react exothermically with hydrogen to form LnH 2, dihydrides. [1] With the exception of Eu and Yb, which resemble the Ba and Ca hydrides (non-conducting, transparent salt-like compounds),they form black pyrophoric, conducting compounds [6] where the metal sub-lattice is face centred cubic and the H atoms occupy tetrahedral sites. [1]
Excitation of the donor fluorophore (in this case, the lanthanide ion complex) by an energy source (e.g. flash lamp or laser) produces an energy transfer to the acceptor fluorophore if they are within a given proximity to each other (known as the Förster's radius). The acceptor fluorophore in turn emits light at its characteristic wavelength.
Despite this, the use of lanthanide coordination complexes as homogeneous catalysts is largely restricted to the laboratory and there are currently few examples them being used on an industrial scale. [36] Lanthanides exist in many forms other than coordination complexes and many of these are industrially useful.
EuFOD, an example of a europium complex. It has been known since the early 1930s that the salts of certain lanthanides are fluorescent. [4] The reaction of lanthanide salts with nucleic acids was discussed in a number of publications during the 1930s and the 1940s where lanthanum-containing reagents were employed for the fixation of nucleic acid structures. [3]
For example, [Ti(H 2 O) 6] 4+ is unknown: the hydrolyzed species [Ti(OH) 2 (H 2 O) n] 2+ is the principal species in dilute solutions. [11] With the higher oxidation states the effective electrical charge on the cation is further reduced by the formation of oxo-complexes.
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths, and sometimes the lanthanides or lanthanoids (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths), [1] are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.
Lanthanide chlorides are a group of chemical compounds that can form between a lanthanide element (from lanthanum to lutetium) and chlorine. The lanthanides in these compounds are usually in the +2 and +3 oxidation states , although compounds with lanthanides in lower oxidation states exist.